Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts50. Savings
(1) Notwithstanding the repeals effected by section 3, the By-laws made under the repealed Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continue to apply to the same extent as if the repealed Act had continued in operation and may be amended or repealed as if they were by-laws made under this Act.
(2) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, the Northern Territory Port Authority had a title to or an interest in an asset, or had a right, privilege, obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise, that title, interest, right, privilege, obligation or liability is transferred to the Port Authority.
(3) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, an activity was being carried on by or in the name of the Northern Territory Port Authority, the Port Authority may, subject to this Act, continue to carry on that activity.
(4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a person was -
(a) the Chairman;
(b) a member;
(c) the harbourmaster or assistant harbourmaster; or
(d) an authorized officer,
of the Northern Territory Port Authority he or she continues under this Act to be the Chairman, member, harbourmaster, assistant harbourmaster or authorized officer, as the case may be, as if appointed under this Act.
(5) An action, prosecution or other proceeding begun under the Ports Act as then in force before the commencement of this Act may be continued as if this Act had never commenced, and an action, prosecution or other proceeding in respect of a thing done or omitted to be done under the Ports Act as then in force before the commencement of this Act may be brought, taken and prosecuted in the same manner as if this Act had never commenced.
(6) Money that, if this Act had not come into operation, would be or become payable to the Northern Territory Port Authority is, or will become, as the case may be, payable to the Port Authority.
(7) Where a transfer is effected by subsection (2), the Port Authority continues an action by virtue of subsection (5), or money is or becomes payable by virtue of subsection (6), this Act is sufficient authority in relation to that money or to the matter transferred or continued -
(a) for a person having control of a register to register the transfer;
(b) for the Port Authority, in its own name, to take or continue an action, or to do any other thing that, if this Act had not commenced, the Northern Territory Port Authority could have taken, continued or done; and
(c) for a person or body to take or continue an action, or to do any other thing, in relation to the Port Authority, that, if this Act had not commenced, that person or body could have taken, continued or done in relation to the Northern Territory Port Authority.
(8) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a person had under
the repealed Act, or the By-laws as then in force, a licence, or a certificate
of registration in respect of a vessel, issued by the Northern Territory Port
Authority, that person or vessel shall, on the commencement of this Act, be
deemed to be licensed or registered, as the case may be, under this Act or the
By-laws, and this Act, or the By-laws shall apply subject to the same terms
and conditions, not inconsistent with this Act or the By-laws, as then applied
to and in relation to the licence or certificate of registration as if the
licence or certificate of registration were specified under this Act or the
By-laws in the licence or certificate of registration.
(9) In this section "the Northern Territory Port Authority" means the Northern Territory Port Authority established under the repealed Act.